Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

Here's a film that's three times the fun, allegedly. A hapless student finds himself in a series of comic misadventures, from dodging work duty to preventing a staged robbery. It's broad Soviet-era slapstick, for anyone keeping score.

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Leonid Gaidai directed Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures in 1965. See Leonid Gaidai's full filmography, where to start with Leonid Gaidai, or where to go after you've seen everything by Leonid Gaidai.

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures was released in 1965 (RU original-language production), with a runtime of 95 minutes.